Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-06-16

attend strictly to business and attract as little
attention as possible. He was very quiet il
fact, barring an occasional necessary remark
concerning the bets or the requirements O
his hands, he was scarcely ever known tc
utter a word. When spoken to directly he
always answered politely, but always briefly
What his opinions on the thousand and one
questions which continually agitated the pub
lie mind of Golden Sand were, no one knew
On rare occasions he had been known tc
make a playful remark on some passing
event, and it was even whispered that once
or twice he had been known to grow quite
talkative for the space of FIVE minutes. And
the remarkable thing about it was that these
few occasions had invariably been when ris-
ing from a game early in the morning ir
which he had been so unlucky as to become
"dead broke" and that his remarks were
always of the most humorous character. The
stories of these occasions had given him the
reputation of having remarkably elastic dis
position which no misfortune could cloud and
also, whether deserved or not, of being re.
markably good story-teller if he was only dis
posed to try. 81 b'lieve," was the remark oi
lack Middleton, "that ef we could keep that
cuss dead broke all the time that he would
be laundering good fellow to entertain a
crowd
But Reynolds was one Of the hardest men
in the Hills to keep broke for any length OF
| time. He was the coolest man who ever
turned a card. He seemed to be equally at
home with any game. He was seldom caught
in cheating, though it was known that he
could make the cards run as nearly as he
wanted them to as any man in the camp.
And usually when he was detected in practic-
ing what was known to Golden Sand as
'monkey work" the other party preferred to
keep still, as Mr.. Reynolds could produce a
''gun" to back up his position even quicker
than he could handle pack of cards. Cool,
desperate and feared, it is not strange that his
name should have headed the list made up
| by the Moral Improvement Society of Golden
Sand Camp.
He received his notification TO 90 while en-
gagged IN his favorite game, He made no
reply, but finished the deal.
That air order, wanter say" explained
Lem Upton as Reynolds picked up his hand,
"goes inter effect now, to onct. You're TO
get out O this ere camp inside o thirty
minutes"
Il hnd,' replied Reynolds, speaking for
the first time, and as if he had extracted the
information from the hand which he laid
down, 'that it will be impossible for me to
remain in your city. Pressing business, gen
tlemen," he continued with a wave of the
hand, ''compels me to leave Golden Sand,
much as l should like to remain"
He arose from the table and looked at the
committee with a faint smile.
burned ef | don't b'lieve yer right" said
Judge Pott in astonishment.
"Ouite So" returned Mr.. Reynolds, 81
have carefully canvassed the subject during
the last minute and find that nothing could
induce me to stay longer than half an hour.
Please have the goodness 70 give my respects
to such Of my friends as l will be unable to
see owing to the extreme haste with which 1t
will be necessary to wind up my business in
terests here before walking up the gulch."
"Well, you air cool one, sure enough
hanged if we don't do it fer ye," replied the
astonished Judge Pott. Reynolds went out
and the committee went on with its work OF
publication.
A half hour later Doc Reynolds was seen
going along the main street Of the town,
which ran straight up Silver Tip Gulch.
Declining an invitation to drink with some
friends at the Last Chance saloon, he said:
"Unforseen events make it necessary that |
90 up this gulch few hundred miles and
look after certain business interests. Time
was never more valuable to me than now"
and he glanced expressively at rope orna
mented with a moose dangling from the limb
of pine tree Just beyond the muddy waters
of Galena creek, which had been placed there
as a warning to all who had been told to de-
part, what they might expect if they did not
comply. He passed on up the gulch and
was soon lost among the rocks and trees.
1t was whispered among those who knew
that he went away with scarcely dollar in
his pockets, having had very bad luck for the
last few days. The committee went on with
its work, and warned the others who were
marked to 90, though more time was given
them. and most Of them waited and took the
coach which went down to the lower camps,
and on to the railroad, the next morning.
REYNOLDS was the only one who went up the
gulch, and considerable speculation was in
duleed in as TO his destination, as that route
led TO no place in the mining camps.
The next day in the afternoon reports came
to Golden Sand Camp which caused work to
be suspended and the people to flock together
on the street corners-reports which produced
more excitement than did the great moral
upheaval Of the day before. They were re-
ports of depredations by the Indians.
The Indians had relinquished their title to
the country, but they had not yet given up
the idea that it should belong 10 them, and
they were still very numerous and aggressive.
From the first stray parties had been attacked
by them and every few weeks the killing OF
a white man by them in some part of the
Hills was reported. Now it seemed from the
reports that a number had been killed in diff
ferent places almost simultaneously. The
Indians were not so numerous as TO cause
any fears of a general massacre or attack on
the camps, but there seemedto be little hope
for scattering prospectors and small parties
moving into the country. Indeed it was from
the reports of attacks on these, brought IN by
survivors, that caused the alarm in Golden
Sand. For the day that prosperous city in
dulged in but little else except hurling words
of hatred at the government pets" as the
noble red men were familiarly referred to.
For the next few days every man who came
into the camp told story of some new victim
or victims of the Indians, or at least of hair
breadth escape. One or two instances OF
families being killed who were moving into
the country and were not with a sufficiently
strong force to resist the attacks, were also
reported. In the rush to reach the best points
and most prosperous camps many little par
ties Of perhaps only one or two wagons had
been tempted to leave the slow "bull trains
and press on. Others had left the more gen.
erally travelled trails and attempted to make
a short cut. The Indians were in little bands
scatteredethroughout the whole country, and
nearly every small party Of whites expert
enced trouble from them if not loss OF life.
sid like TO know how Doc Reynolds is
1ra..;r,, ,lonrr with ,enn y said Judge Pott on